When I was younger I had never been out of the south. There was no internet and the news I got was very whitewashed, the biased opinions of those around me ingrained deeply. I was raised to be quietly racist, in the most "kind" and "Christian" way. That basically meant we didn't talk about it but we all knew it was a reality. I assumed t…
When I was younger I had never been out of the south. There was no internet and the news I got was very whitewashed, the biased opinions of those around me ingrained deeply. I was raised to be quietly racist, in the most "kind" and "Christian" way. That basically meant we didn't talk about it but we all knew it was a reality. I assumed that the rest of the country was more advanced and therefore less racist. When I became an adult and began to travel to different parts of the country and later to a few other countries I learned that racism is everywhere. I learned that "rednecks" or at least what I think of as that classification were all over our country. I learned that non whites in other countries weren't the same shades of brown and black but suffered from white people's relative power just the same. It is everywhere and the single worst instinct in humans, imo. I wish I could borrow some of the righteous anger from folks, instead I am just so deeply sad and disappointed in people, their narrow minds and lack of empathy for fellow humans.
When I was younger I had never been out of the south. There was no internet and the news I got was very whitewashed, the biased opinions of those around me ingrained deeply. I was raised to be quietly racist, in the most "kind" and "Christian" way. That basically meant we didn't talk about it but we all knew it was a reality. I assumed that the rest of the country was more advanced and therefore less racist. When I became an adult and began to travel to different parts of the country and later to a few other countries I learned that racism is everywhere. I learned that "rednecks" or at least what I think of as that classification were all over our country. I learned that non whites in other countries weren't the same shades of brown and black but suffered from white people's relative power just the same. It is everywhere and the single worst instinct in humans, imo. I wish I could borrow some of the righteous anger from folks, instead I am just so deeply sad and disappointed in people, their narrow minds and lack of empathy for fellow humans.